1st Edition

Quantum Electrodynamics

By Richard P. Feynman Copyright 1998
208 Pages
by CRC Press

212 Pages
by CRC Press

212 Pages
by CRC Press

This text material constitutes notes on the third of a three-semester course in quantum mechanics given at the California Institute of Technology in 1953, presenting the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics.

Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- Interaction of Light with Matter–Quantum Electrodynamics -- Résumé of the Principles and Results of Special Relativity -- Relativistic Wave Equation -- Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free Particle -- Potential Problems in Quantum Electrodynamics -- Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of Particles with Light -- Interaction of Several Electrons -- Discussion and Interpretation of Various “Correction” Terms -- Pauli Principle and the Dirac Equation -- The Theory of Positrons -- Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics -- Appendix

Biography

Feynman, Richard P.